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Vraja Festivals - Nityananda Trayodasi

by: Madhavananda Das

Publication date: 2005
Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Topics: Lake of Flowers, Gaudiya, Vaishnava, Radha, Krishna, Chaitanya, Hinduism, bhakti, India, Nityananda, Nitai, Vraja Festivals
Publisher: Lake of Flowers Productions
Item Size: 2.2G

The third episode of the Vraja Festivals series features the celebration of Nityananda Trayodasi. The appearance days of the Lord's avatars are always filled with great festivities, and the advent of Sri Nityananda Prabhu - the eccentric saint who was taken as nondifferent from Krishna's brother, Baladeva - is no exception.

Footage from the festival is divided into two parts:

* 1. Janma-kirtana - Songs describing the birth and life of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Songs led by Sanatana Das Baba and Anath Bandhu Das Baba.
* 2. Parikrama - Circumambulation of the sacred ponds of Radha-kunda and Shyama-kunda, visits to surrounding temples.